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Passage

Wednesday, April 9–Friday, April 11, 2025 • 7:30 PM | Saturday, April 12, 2025 • 2 PM

By Christopher Chen
Cathy Thomas-Grant, Director 

“Unashamedly political yet deeply humane, it’s a difficult journey that is well worth the trouble.” Time Out New York

A fantasia inspired by E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, Passage is set in the fictional Country X, colonized by Country Y. It is a meditation on how power imbalances affect personal and interpersonal dynamics and a drama about nationalism and colonialism and how they impact the friendship between a native of each country. How can citizens of two very different nations cope, relate, converse, and interact with each other? This is a thoughtfully told story about the current state of our world. 



Recommended for ages 16+ for mature themes and profanity. Join a talk back with the actors and director after the Wednesday, April 9 performance.

Photo: The Tempest, 2024

Date

Wednesday, April 9–Friday, April 11, 2025 • 7:30 PM | Saturday, April 12, 2025 • 2 PM

Tickets

$18
$13 for Pepperdine students • $15 for Pepperdine faculty and staff

Venue

Smothers Theatre

Contact Us

Box Office
Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263

310.506.4522

Open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 PM,
and two hours prior to most performances.


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